Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)
- To: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>, Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>
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- Subject: Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)
- From: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 19:46:39 +0300
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Hi, I just wanted to remind you of some patches I sent a while back. Do
you (or anyone else) have time to comment on / review / merge them?
On 19/05/2020 17:17, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote:
So I tested my earlier patch, and did a bit more. I've attached three
patches, first two for debian-installer and the third for rootskel.
The first patch fixes arm64 netboot and netboot-gtk mini.iso images
which now have 'Graphical install' GRUB entries using /gtk/initrd.gz
files which don't exist, by making that file identical to /initrd.gz.
Also, instead of this, would it be fine to merge netboot-gtk into
netboot in general? I think that would solve this issue better.
The second patch adds "console=tty0" to GRUB entries marked as
"Graphical" in grub-gencfg. Without this, "Graphical automated install"
runs on the serial console (since that may be the "preferred" console
due to stdout-path or SPCR on arm64). The console=tty0 cmdline argument
also ends up in the installed system's /etc/default/grub.cfg, which is
correct IMO.
The third patch considers tty0 a possible console even if it's not in
/proc/consoles (the patch I sent earlier). The text-mode installer
already launches on the display in the stdout-path case, but not on the
SPCR case. With this it launches on the display in that case as well.
I've tested on an arm64 QEMU VM. After all the patches:
- "Install" launches on serial and display
- "Graphical install" launches on display and serial
- "Automated install" launches only on serial
- "Graphical automated install" launches only on display
On systems where console is set with stdout-path instead, "Graphical
install" would launch only on display, but the others would be the same.
The three patches are available at [1] if you haven't received them, or
I can resend them if you want.
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2020/05/msg00178.html
There's also a small change I posted for bug #961590 [2] that includes
fb-modules in the netboot pkg-list, I'd be glad if that could be merged
as well.
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961590#30
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